Sentences with phrase «of pacifists»

However, it is a welcome relief that Mr. Nuechterlein pauses to visit the «tradition of pacifist thought» that may «not be as feckless» as most think.

In recognition of his pacifist activities, Shimamoto was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996.

This raises an important question, namely, what kind of pacifist was Bonhoeffer?

Initially his mother and Father were against him joining the Army because of their pacifist convictions.

After studying some of the teachings, I am finding myself to be more of a pacifist.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the most volatile and hostile countries on the planet, yet its dark interior is home to a group of pacifists who look like refugees from the Summer of Love.

The film clips gathered in Syria's Torture Machine depict graphic acts of torture and the horrific injuries that result; powerful images capable of causing even the most ardent of pacifists to advocate force.

It's refreshing to be reminded that not everyone who met the zealous young advocate for life in community and the Sermon on the Mount was equally impressed — Hardy Arnold, son of the founder of the pacifist Bruderhof near Frankfurt, thought Bonhoeffer a bit of a dandy and a romantic when Bonhoeffer visited there in 1934.

Based on our definition of pacifist, I would probably call myself one also.

By skirting the complexity of historical Christianity, and by doing so to strengthen his own arguments, Madden risks placing his scholarship on the level of those pacifist revisions of history whose slanted narratives he correctly dismisses.

(That is, if one is the second type of pacifist.)

A new generation of pacifists is being born, at a time when the United States is relaunching plans for massive military investment.

Certainly, some are drawn to Libertarianism because they want to smoke dope without fear of arrest or because of their pacifist natures or any other number of reasons.

The section on just war theory closed with a warm affirmation of the value of a pacifist witness within the Catholic Church, claiming that it shares with just war theory «a common presumption against the use of force as a means of settling disputes.»

From 1947 to 2008... All in the name of their Pacifist God... Ironic... Reagan talked Saddam in Iraq, into going to war with Iran... and that Iran - Iraq war lasted the full term of Reagan's run in the Oval Office...1980 - 1989..

... the generally accepted position of pacifists was that although it was wrong to drop bombs on Germans, Japanese, or somebody else, it was at least permissible to buy the bombs and pay someone else to drop them... [After 1947] many pacifists said they were seeing for the first time that their position of «refusal to give military service» had been a little empty, considering the fact that they were the wrong age, sex, or profession to be called upon.

But at the beginning of America's entry into the Great War, the Century betrayed no signs of a pacifist impulse.

«The basic confusion of pacifists is their assumption that the principles of Christian morality which we ought to follow in our individual lives can be applied to governments.

These may be telling objections to some pacifists, but a careful articulation of the pacifist vision can meet them.

But Aderin - Pocock had qualms about working for the military: «I was a bit of a pacifist.

They expected that the overall disease severity would decrease because of the presence of the pacifist strain.

Charity: Wakanda is an isolationist nation of pacifists whose core commercial innovations, outside of medicine, are in warfare and air travel.

I happen to agree with a lot of the critics who contend that the film's story of a pacifist doesn't quite mesh with its filmmaker's festishization of violence, but this is a solid war movie, a flick that will play very well at home to audiences who may have skipped it in theaters.

Set in a world where humans and octopi are at war with each other, Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako - San tells the tale of a pacifist octopus who rescues a human woman from drowning.

In 2007, with State Britain, he filled the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain by recreating in the minutest detail the protest of pacifist Brian Haw in Parliament Square, once again pointing the finger explicitly to England today, in particular to the reality of civil liberties and the violation of the right to free speech and thought.

At the time it was claimed this was to provide a less distracting backdrop for film and photographs but it was reported that the real reason was the panic of his advisers at the thought of Powell being recorded in front of such a famous piece of pacifist propaganda.

Nevertheless, much as the most vehement of pacifists can still celebrate the military's potential to bring solar to the masses, we greenies shouldn't lament something that makes clean energy tangible, accessible and decidedly more mainstream.

Dumbledore, who is more of a pacifist and values other's life earned the Elder Wand, a powerful weapon.

For this I blame the broad and unwitting acceptance of pacifist thinking, if not of pacifist conclusions.